Under Quotes - page 3

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution. (L. Neil Smith)
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. View quote
Washington Irving
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. View quote
William Morris
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. View quote
Henry Miller
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. View quote
Thom Yorke
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. View quote
Samuel Adams
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Courage is grace under pressure. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
One more drink and I'd have been under the host. (Dorothy Parker)
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. View quote
Albert Camus
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. View quote
William Howard Taft
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. View quote
Muhammad Ali
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. View quote
Denis Diderot
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
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